The Bucherer blue editions: Your most exclusive timepiece October 25, 2017 | City Talk An exclusive collaboration with some of the world’s best watch manufacturers, Bucherer Blue Editions offers clients a distinctive selection of timepieces based on longstanding relationships bred from high expertise and a demand for something truly unique. With blue running as a central theme, this colour has long been an inspiration for artists – exhibiting inner [...]
Do you wear a dress watch? October 25, 2017 | City Talk Has the dress watch been lost to time or is it just more complicated now? A dress watch should be your most elegant and refined timepiece, but with the evolution of style and prevalence of streetwear the notion of a dress watch remains open. For most of us the term dress watch partners with black [...]
Fitness advice: My favourite gym stories, from epic #gymfails to overzealous grunters October 19, 2017 This Saturday marks our ninth year anniversary at our City gym No1 Fitness. I’ve now been in the fitness industry for over 12 years, and during that time I’ve seen that the gym isn’t only a place to burn calories: it’s somewhere to make life-long friends, to feel better about yourself, to clear your [...]
Tinder’s ‘menducation’ doctrine dispels the notion that women are best served by other women October 17, 2017 A few weeks ago, Tinder announced a new chat feature. “Designed by the women of Tinder”, says the announcement, “the feature gives women extra tools to express themselves”. It concludes: “sometimes men need a little bit of guidance when it comes to communicating….” So many things are wrong with this pitch. Tinder’s new chat feature [...]
Saint George and the Dragon at the National Theatre: A fairytale for adults that’s not half as clever as it thinks it is October 13, 2017 What a time to stage a proper state-of-the-nation play. With record inequality, rising nationalism and the prospect of limping from the EU without so much as a trade deal, this is the perfect time to mull over exactly what it means to be British. And for a while, Rory Mullarkey’s new play looks like it [...]
Loving Vincent film review: An astonishing artistic achievement that’s so overwhelming it borders on psychedelic October 13, 2017 Van Gogh’s paintings have long served as inspiration for animators. I’ve wandered through virtual reality versions of his Paris bars, the lights glowing with distinctive halos, and various filmmakers have attempted to realise the movement implied by the painter’s brush strokes. But Loving Vincent does it on a whole other level. It’s a labour of [...]
John Akomfrah: Purple at the Barbican review: An astonishingly ambitious attempt to chart the anthropocene October 6, 2017 The Barbican’s Curve gallery is essentially given over to a single, epic, six-screen video that attempts to chart the history of humanity from the turn of the last century, and show how we’ve impacted upon the world around us. This wildly ambitious project is undertaken by documentary-maker and artist John Akomfrah, whose resulting video montage [...]
The Mark Hotel review: Checking in to the New York hotel with a $75,000 per night, five-bedroom luxury suite October 6, 2017 There are myriad ways of seeing NYC – but if you want to do it in style, there is only one. The Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side is so beautifully put together that stepping into its lobby is like stepping into a piece of pop art. Designer Jacques Grange has been given carte [...]
Why cinema is doomed: The picture house may think it has weathered the storms of piracy and streaming, but the real cliff edge is still to come October 5, 2017 In April of last year, AMC, on the verge of buying out Odeon and becoming the largest cinema chain in the world, announced it was considering allowing people to use their phones during screenings. Its CEO, Adam Aron, justified this by saying, “When you tell a 22- year-old to turn off their phone, they hear [...]
Fitness advice: Bulking up is about more than just protein shakes. Here’s how to make gains October 4, 2017 During initial consultations, clients will often say that they want to lose weight and gain muscle. In theory this is what we all need to do, but in a short space of time, such as three months, you shouldn’t expect to see much muscle actually being added. While most of the top transformations at [...]